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FULLY; SIGNED UP
'" Willamette University,'" Salem, Tc
1. A few minute - before midnight
pledgee o's the ! WClantti university
forward paoveroent eroaaed the $l,25o,
W goal with A margin whieit brought
i he endowment 'to a. successful "dose.
As early as 18 40 'It U assured that
the pledging- would reach the desired j
mark, though previous to the last three
days the officials and directors . were
- very anxious as to-the outcome. Th
rally of the workers during this week
1h had much to do with, the finish. :
Kxactly at 11:6S p. m. the whistle of
' i he Spaulding saw mill started blowing;,
after the : WaBec hall victory bell bad
pealed out the glad tidings. Many, of
the churches, s factories, and - others
: joined in tha-'genersJ celebration.
. ; The student body, faoulty members
and the friends of Willamette university
hd gathered In tha chapel of Waller
hall earlier in the eveening. After the
newt of the victory .reached, them they
: farmed a Una and marched through
the business districts of fSaJem. The
omen marchers carried Japanese lan--terns,
the men carried- torches and
every on bad some apparatus to make
3fse. -
--. Willamette university will now be
able ia pay off every obligation and
be freed from debt. -r
- ? Construction wilt be started on a new
gymnasium, a central heating1 plant
and other needed improvements will be
made. It also means the Increasing
of ths student body td ,1000 students
vitalA the aeat five years- '
ttAisnra or tm nscats "
(ummx. k. hoard rw
v' Word was received In Portland from
isalera Wednesday aight of the success
of the Willamette university endow
ment fund drive.
With that amount raised the univers
ity also will ret an additional (850,000
from the general education board of
the Methodist Episcopal, church. The
success of the drive was indicated at
noon, when reports of the various com
mittees were given at a luncheon at
the Seward hotel.: i, '
At that time it was announced that
$1,199,000 had been subscribed. - Tho to
fM.1 sum had to be raised by midnight
Wednesday in order to secure the ap
propriation from tha Methodist board.
, Portland won out Over Salem In the
Contest to see whleh city could raise
i300,000 first, raising f0O0 extra.
Portland solicitors gathered SS9.999
J rice luesaay noon, Among wio gins
announced Wednesday were : Meier Ac
Frank, i60ti0;dd.-Wortman dt King.
20W)i Powers : Kumiture company,
SlOOd; Imperial hotel, $1000; Benson
hotel, "-$2500 1 "A. Friend,' $10,000, and
Jirsw-Frederick Eggert.' $3000. .
New Ladies' Cloak,-,
Suit Find Formed
Louis Spiegel and iWUlIam at
Krause announced today , that they
have formed a partnership Jo manu
facture ladies coats and suits,-with
headquarters on tho second floor of the
Fleidner building. 10th and .Washing
ton streets. Spiegel, wh bas been ttt
the manufacturing business (or several
years, will have Charge of the plant
Krause, a resident of Portland for- 24
years, was for several years merchan
dise manager of tne Eastern Outfitting
company and : lust closed out Peter
son's upstairs clothe shop .? for. that
firm." The firm will -operate under the
name of Spiegel-Kraue company.
Prominent Merohant
Is Found SHbt Dead
Spokan; Waalu Deo. St-(t?..Pi
Albert Benhamr- prominent .wholesale
grocer, was, found Shot deed In bis
apartment hero today, j The revolver
which apparently had : brought about
his death lay, by hi Side. -The fcul-
lt entered through tho bade of the
man's head and emerged above his
fight' eye. - The police expressed Un
certainty whether the death is murder
or suicide. Benham recently was de
fendant in a breach, of promise suit
bare',. : ' ! .
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Jeldnes Bros. V Co-, salmon brokers,
war. allowed by Federal Judge Diet
rich, today to take 480 sample of
salmon out of a shipment of 1CM eases
which the government has seized and
condemned as unfit tor consumption
Counsel for the firm said It waa de
sired to test tha fish, and If found fit
for use it is intended to Contest the
oa.se. ' If tha government's report is
found correct no effort will be made
to resist, tha confiscation, and destruc
tion. - - ', '
. HTSTE SAII.OM DIOWMB
Paris, Dec. 11. .. X. - B.) Nine
sailors were drowned today in a col
lision between tho Norwegian steam
ship Asturias and tha; French, ship
Vindltls off St.' Nastrre today.
" ASTOttI A FtTlfTi tOTEB
Medford, Dec 2lThe Medford City
council appropriated $500 for Astoria
fire relief.
TiEOTIlEfiSJlElli
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Coadsned tM Pace OmeV
dow as sha described it, waa eurtain-
less and th entire room, wita tna oeo
In tha corner, waa visibie, put as she
bad said. c:':'c ".- r
romtv riatrlet Attorney Mowrr ap-
. .riiiinr this afternoon to
credit the girl's tals than he dia last
night, when she first ioia m or uu
numtinv whan tha alder' Weir was ar
rested and ehoutod his emphaUo de
oid Cash Weir, Earrs' father. Wiled
br." the girl oeeiarea ssmia
test night, ana ner sxory onw
nw
Knt Mit r:aan weir, wno is . wm
arrested la Ms boathouas last night at
ths.foot of Belmont atreew no iausooa
uproariously. - "
-Ho bo. h decUfed. "What 3k.
Sha's no good. h's Just mad because
t told my son not to bava anything to
do -with- her,".; . . -W.WVY-v..-,"
So When both t did' man and the
young woman stuck to their stories
through tha night. Under tha question
ing nd requestioning datactJvea.
tnara seemed little left to do except
hunt down Earl Weir and get his
version,
BXWAKJ0 OP A0 BD-
If Cash Weir- should ever be hanged,
and, the prison chaplain, when the
noose is around his nock, should ask
him If he baa any remarks to make,
he may declare ; : .'' ; - ;
; ewar bt dago red,' It makes oner
talk too much." -
The story of tha alleged murder came
out When Helen Leafy the little roust
about waitress from Omaha, Neb., who
teili it waa deep in her cups, accord
ing td her own tale. She went over
tha details sitting in the matron of
fice of the city Jail this afternoon, sue
is a little over the medium height, with
nlucked evebrows. bobbed hair and
shabby Bhoes flapper of tha under
world class. s : . : . . ; -
8he had been held mora or less of. a
prisoner on Weir's houseboat ever since
October 8, she stated. ,
BECOME EAST PBIEXDS
"I was working in the restaurant
at-Ko, S8C Kast Morrison street." she
told police. "That's where I met Cash
Weir. He said he wanted me to meet
hie son and he brought Earl around.
We became good friends.
I went down to the boa tho use
about 2 o'clock the afternoon of Sep
tember 28 to see EarL There I met a
gift about 15 years old, who said she
had run away from home a few days
before and. asked If aha couldn't stay
aifliftlftifllftifiH we Ten it with values iOIOiOIOiOiOIC
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WE ARE NOT SATISFIED to have our
garments only as good as others
Our Coats, Wraps and
Frocks Must Be Better
Than .Others
nor ire we content that they
shall cost the same as others
Without Prejudice to
Quality, They Muot Sell
For Less Than Others
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through intelligent, aggressive application,, backed by cap
ital and encouraged by the large field of supporters who
Use our products. -' . ' '
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335 DRESSES
For the Restaurants and
the .Theatres" ; . v . ." . f,, -. 1 ;
Taffetas, 'Laces, Gofg-ettes, Canton
Crepe and their combinations
300 COSTUMES
-Tor" the Party and the Evening
Reception'
Lovely " imported ' spangled creations,- of Q-
satin naline and ceoixette orerdrapes . . . will
375 DRESSES .
jFox Street and Business f
Trieotines, Poiret Twills, Canton v
Crepes and Metalasse. . .
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with me. Z didn't say s'he could and I
left. , , . -
'At; 7. o'clock i in 'tha avenine"!- fa-.
turned to see if Earl was there yet.' As
i sxeppea aown the stairway l neara
loud voices, and was afraid there was
a drunken ntrty aboard. I aooked
througrh the .window, which 'had no
cmtaina, and saw Cash Weir and the
girl on the bed. He had torn part of
her clothes away.? I stooped down and
watched, through a knothole Just under
the -window, . l,"' -v , " , "
' Thin'I heard Earl sten-onto the
boat and X ran and bid.: Cash let fart
in and X watched again. They worked
over the girl with water and then Sari
sent Cash tor the launch. arl
wrapped her up. ; Both men aeemed
bewildered. but they finally put . hef
in the launch and went north down
the -rtver. -. ; ii
SHX IV AS TBBIFID v. 1 i
"Right after the murder I -ran home.'!
she ' said. "Karl had a date with, me
that night, but he didn't show up. 1
didn't go out at all the next day
stayed home. X couldn't get that sight
out of, my mind, bow the girl's eye
rolled back as aha craameo.
: "The second night Earl came. He
walked around the room nervously,
picking tip a brush on the bureau ana
then dropping it and picking up some
thing else. I was crying on, the bed,
It didn't seem to occur to bim to aBk
why. .Then I lumped Up "
Here the girl clasped her bands to
her heart, demonstrating how she acted
at Um time. , - - . - s -..
i "And cried, Eart Weir, Why did
you loll that girir He Seised me by
the throat and choked me whispering.
roa't shout so loud.' People wui bear
you. : He told -me be would (kill me
if X ever told, and when ha had choked
me more he threw me back on the bed.
SATS CASH VISITS 2LKH
- "The next day cash Weif came to
my room. Ha said Earl had told bfam
that ! knew, and he said he was go
lng to "put roe out of the way if
ever breathed a word to anyone. After
that Earl and Cash seemed to be
afraid to leave me alone. Finally,
October 8. they made me go down to
the. houseboat id live. They locked me
in, and pretty Soon they moved , the
boat out into the river and anchored it,
whtr there was no way tor me to
get off.
r "They left me there for four dayl
without a bite to eat. About t o'clock
the mornln of the fourth day Cash
brobght me Some sandwichea f Then
the houseboat was moved tip to ftoes
island, and' Chris Orewell, this crippled
man up there, tied it up.
"X was prisoner there for a long
time. One day I got Chris to take lime up
up -town. I was afraid to ro alone.
because Cash said he would kill me if
he -found me there. A man stopped me
on . the bridge and asked if I wasn't
Helen Leary. He said Cash hSd
thraauhed to put me out of the way
because I was winning .the love and
devotion of bis son. X turned back,
afraid. Y
SHE SAKRICADEX DOORS
, "After this, on three nights in suc
cession, : someone tried to break into
the houseboat. - X barricaded the doors
and kept them out.. Chris helped roe
some.; Then Dorothy and Loom la,
known on the waterfront, came m one
day and said Cash had told; them
they could have the houseboat free of
rant If they would board me.
"It was one nla-ht when with Dor
othy and I had taken too .much dago
rea tnat i told about the murder.
. ; disinterested persons reported the
facts to police, having heard "Dor
othy" and Helen Learv talk over the
case. The two were wondering: wheth
er they should report it to nolice.
Helen Leary said this afternoon she
neueveo: she could point out the place
where she and Ear! Weir, were driving
when,. Weir is said to have leaned 'over
and whispered to her, "I can . almost
see- toe, piece - where the body: ;Wae
nroppeo in the river, with stoneavo
it to keep it down." She cannot recall
the same Of the road, but would recog
nise it If driven over it. she said.- Po
lice plan to take her on a tour off the
reads leading down the river. This
Incident happened about a week after
the crime, according to her story.
The girl said she wrote a letter to
the police not long ago, but was afraid
to send it for fear Carl Weir would
discover it. ,
"Captain" Weir Is known up and
down the waterfront and has been
picturesque figure for years. ' Known
to the police and the harbor- patrol as
a. good-hearted man of Inoffensive
habits, he has often given temporary
aid -to the down -and -outer, finding re
fuge and food for him lfcla floating
noma.: . .
SEEIT OlBtf IDEyTlTT j
Ttolice were working on clues as to
the identity of the girl who was al
leged to have been murdered. : Many
stories ot vanished children came to
police neadanarters from distraught
parents, ' one report was . from n Xents
of a gtri answering the description
wno ouaappeareo lata in September.
Helen Ieary, however, stated that
the girl on the houseboat told her. she
was from, "somewhere up In wash
ington." She spoke of her brothers
and - said she left home because she
had a quarrel with her mother; . ;
' XfABTSOV COKlTJtMEl)
i Washington, Iec at. (U- jp.) Nel
son T. Hartson of Washington' state
was confirmed as solicitor of Internal
revenue by the senate late today,
iProposed Storage:
Of Logs in Oswego
Lake 'Unnecessary'
. i "n L ... . ..?
.Testimony tending to show .that the
project of the Oswego , Log vBooa
company, . which proposes to buil a
runway from Oswego Uketo the Wtt
lamett river ana store togs in tne iase
for consumption. In Portland markets,
la unnecessary as a public service, was
brought out today . during the exami
nation of Theodore B. Brown, forest
engineer and - lumber manufacturer.
Tha hearing of the request of the boom
company . waa . resumed this morning
before tha public service-commission.
- Brown becupied the stand during the
entire forenoon. . He . was V introduced
a witnesa by the Oregon Iron ' A
Steel company, which owns the ripar
lan rights to; the property along the
lake shore which the boom company
wishes -to uUUae for the runway. The
steel company is opposing the plan.
$ Brown testified that there was an.
abundance of available land both in
Oswego and Portland vicinity for lo
cating such a project without damag
ing residential sites ot pleasure places.
He ' said that now the Wheeler and
McCall booms. With combined capaci
ties of a million feet, were only storing
300.000 feet of lumber, and that from
f.
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600 COATS 52
For the DriTrarid the :
Chilly, Damp Evenings . y
Superior tirades of Bolivias. Suedenes,
Veldynos, and Velours, mil . full sflk-- "JT
' lined ; some with- deepr fur f "1 ? 4 ' avJL
collars
320' TOPCOATS
of the New Sport Type
For the College Girl , . ; s
New-Tork
-Seattle -
Man-made throughout of rich jSI C ' e2C
mannish tweeds and mixtures ulU - . jy
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145-147 BROADWAY, PORTLAND '
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THE COZY
HOME ;
: owes a large part of
i tff cheerf ill comfort
to the sturdy Char
ter Oak Stove. ;
This emblem
a -- - t
has meant economy
of fuel and a maxi
mum of .heat, since,
, grandfather "was a
boy, in hundreds of
thousands of homes..
isherwood;
Stove Company
"'SOLElJISTItlBTJTOItS T
this it would appear no additional stor
age space was needed immediately.
It was developed that the southern
Pacific, which in 1920. hauled from the
district affected, by . this project. 103L-
000,000 feet of lumber, during this year
had hauled only 60,000.000 feet of lum
ber.
: girls cuoars St50 ;
.The chorus of the girls polytechnic
school is entertaining shopping- crowds
In the downtown stores this afternoon.
singing; Christmas carols in some Of
the- popular-: stores- and restaurants.
Tbe girls win sing Friday In the school
building. Miss Minetta Magers, Instruc
tor, jxained the 100 elngers of the class.
TO BBTTjB TIOlATOltS"
Herbert West and Ilhody Beer, young
desperadoes who confessed to several
highway, robberies recently, "will be re
turned to the, state training' school to
day by state office it waa announced
by Sheriff Hurlburt, No trial is neces
sary nine both of the lads are parole
violators from the training school In
Salem. -' - - .
' , TO RAISE HC1.I.
Bulkheads In the aft end of the
wrecked steamer Welsh' Prince, sunk
in! the lower Columbia riVer last May,
have been completed and pumping op
erations will begin in a few days In
raising that half of the hulL Pumps
are how. being installed 'and .several
tests have already been made. It is
anticipated that th first section wiU
be raised by the end of tbe year.
lmpeacliment Case
. Gomes to an End
Washington, Dec. 1WI. N. .
The impeachment .proceedings before
the house judiciary committee against
Attorney General Harry M.- Daugherty
came to an; end this afternoon after
tho taking of rebuttal evidence from
officials of . the - department of Jus
tice. After bearing of the last of the
government witnesses,! the committee
went? l;;to"'executtve . e.ion to, con
sider when a formal report on . tlo
proceetlSngs should be made to the
house. It is not expected this report
will be ready unUl next month.
Baket.? rcy tlHOeorgo Williams,
convicted Friday of manslaughter for
ths death of Tern Paine." was sentenced
by f Judge Cuatav Anderson to not
more than live years la the state penl- "
tentiary and was fined tlOOO.
Th TTninn finh vtrh.rT haa received
100.000 silver trout ears from Seattle
to plant in Wallowa lake. -
Broadway Pavilion
SPECIAL HOLIDAY DANCES
NEW YEAR'S EVE ;
Bis Entvrtainment and Dance Until 2 1 30 A. M.
CHRISTMAS INSPIRATIONS
Convenient
terms always
extended
Piands low
inpriGe
but
uarant eed in
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AN ARTISTIC BENCH WITH EVERY NEW PIANO '
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as 59) dainty in size, charming :
in appearance.: . . . . '
UPRIGHT VIANDS guaran
teed, 350 and 375 up.
CERTAIN OTHER iAN0
Splendid instruments, at a wide i
range of prices. There is the Al
drich at 445, an excellent piano s
very modestly priced.. There is i
the worideritil little fStrohber at
350 just the piano 'to'delight
the heart of a little girl; or to fit
in a small corner in a bungalow t
or apartment. There are many'
other instruments,
PLA7ER cPIAN0S--We carry
a number of excellent player in-"
stramehts, prices from 395 up. 1
STEIN1VAY ' PIANOS P--Atttt
all, tiiereris but one Steihway! 1
Steinways are pricedat from 925 I
up. Your Steinway, as well as any
PLAYER piOLL G&INETS-- s
Really needed, where there is a
Pianola or player piano, to care
properly for player rolls. Cabinets
from 22.50 upward. . v
D Ud.AR X PIANOS Out of
' the Pianola has grown the mar ;
velous Euo-Art piano. It not only 1-'' "
plays all standard player-rolls -it
riot only may be played by the
; .fingers, as with any other nstru
, ment but it also pkys rolls that ;
the ; masters themselves created,
Come in and let us tell you more S
. about the DuojArt piano,jvhich ;
coiries in the. Steinway pianfor jT ,:
and also in' the Weber, Aeolian, :
bteck, Wheelockand StroucL
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VLAYER 0LLSHtre is an
other present ideal at Christmas:
i si few rolls, ; chosenand given cs
acdy as you would give popular
or standard books. They range in
price from 75c to $t.ko. r ' ;
other pianb,Tnay be obtained for ! " Do you know that we can cut
f. t - . tf 4 !:..': J - - e-'. ' . '
as utue as one-tentii down, and player rolls to orderr -1 he cost is
the balance over a broad period. nominal---iJSually 3.00 per rolL
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Orwhy hotsotveitmtfcd
k 't " An 'order on Sherman, day & Ca. JorIrigh class musical merchandise of any ' -"'
description is redeemable at any cftbe Sherman, day cV Ca stores on tbe Coast. -' 7
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